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<font size="+2"><font face="Calibri"><i><b>August 16</b></i></font></font><font
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<i><font face="Calibri">[ Jason Box is a great ice scientist ---
here is his important new video on Greenland - new science views
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<font face="Calibri"><b>climate wildcard - Greenland melt lakes</b><br>
Jason Box<br>
Aug 15, 2023<br>
visit <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.sila.cool/book-faster-than-forecast/">https://www.sila.cool/book-faster-than-forecast/</a> to obtain
the book chapters that this video supports<br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4fz7Dc5vRs">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4fz7Dc5vRs</a><br>
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<i><font face="Calibri">[ "James Hansen does crucial work"]</font></i><br>
<font face="Calibri"><b>Uh-Oh. Now What? Are We Acquiring the Data
to Understand the Situation?</b><br>
14 August 2023<br>
James Hansen, Makiko Sato and Reto Ruedy<br>
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<blockquote><font face="Calibri">Abstract. Global temperature in
June and July (Fig. 1) shot far above the prior records for<br>
those months for the 140 years of good instrumental data. Early
indications are that warming<br>
exceeds expectation based on only the long-term trend due to
increasing greenhouse gases<br>
(GHGs) plus the emerging El Nino. Three additional mechanisms
will have a near-term<br>
effect, with a result that the 12-month mean global temperature
likely will pierce the 1.5°C<br>
warming level before this time next year. Uncertainties in
present analyses draw attention to<br>
the inadequacy of and the precarious state of crucial global
observations.<br>
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<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2023/UhOh.14August2023.pdf">http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2023/UhOh.14August2023.pdf</a><br>
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<p><font face="Calibri">- -</font></p>
<font face="Calibri"><i>[ Beckwith reads from Hansen's latest work
--YouTube video <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/E-YobPD8D_E">https://youtu.be/E-YobPD8D_E</a>]</i><br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><b>Why we should expect Global Warming
to Skyrocket during next 1.5 years: The Scary Science</b><br>
Paul Beckwith</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Aug 15, 2023<br>
James Hansen is arguably the giant of all climate scientists. I
was very fortunate to meet him a few years ago at a COP climate
conference, and chat with him on a CEF (Climate Emergency Forum)
video. <br>
<br>
He has just published a new paper on updates on the climate
system: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailing">http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailing</a>...<br>
<br>
This paper is vitally important in giving us a clear picture of
what we can expect in the next few years.<br>
<br>
A confluence of factors is driving up global average temperatures
of the atmosphere and oceans and we can expect warming and climate
extremes to notch up to much higher record setting levels. <br>
<br>
We ain’t seen nothing yet. We are only getting a taste this summer
of what is to come in the next year or two.<br>
<br>
1) Average global temperatures trended upwards at 0.18 degrees C
per decade before 2010. With less aerosol forcing, since 2010 to
now it has risen between 0.27 and 0.36 degrees C (this was all in
the previous paper “Global Warming in the Pipeline”)<br>
<br>
2) We can expect an additional rise from El Niño; it is really
just getting started. A super El Niño will easily drive global
average temperatures well above 1.5 C perhaps later this year but
highly probably for 2024. El Niño is much more powerfully warming
the planet in the year after it starts, so in 2024 since it
started this year. <br>
<br>
3) Solar irradiation is peaking soon, and basically adds a forcing
of +0.1 W per m**2 on top of everything else.<br>
<br>
4) We are missing a vast area of sea ice around Antarctica, but
Antarctica is still in its winter darkness. Come Fall and Winter
for Northern Hemisphere dwellers, the sun rises in the Southern
Hemisphere and the huge extra area of dark open ocean around
Antarctica will absorb huge amounts of extra sunlight.<br>
<br>
5) The Earth Energy Imbalance was 0.6 W or m**2 ten years ago
(400,000 Hiroshima bombs a day) but is now 1.22 W per m**2 (more
than double; namely 800,000 Hiroshima bombs per day).<br>
<br>
It is already rapidly rising and the additional effects listed
above will greatly accelerate the rise. <br>
<br>
As a result of this unfortunate confluence of events, we can
expect the global climate turmoil in the last few months to
substantially worsen. When it does, expect the media and
mainstream scientists and politicians to espouse their excuses and
concerns, but none of that matters if they do not slash fossil
fuels. <br>
<br>
Last week Lahaina in Hawaii was incinerated and 1400 people are
still missing (I think they have returned to ashes and dust), and
just today 90-95% of the town of Enterprise in Canada’s Northwest
Territories has incinerated. Global floods are ongoing, heatwaves
are killing countless people, and global governments just don’t
give a damn, since they are subsidizing fossil fuels at record
high levels. <br>
<br>
And the world goes on, at least for most people.<br>
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[Montana Youth prevail -- but the
Legislature must act ]</i><br>
</font> <font face="Calibri">[</font><font face="Calibri">The
Associated Press }<br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><b>Judge sides with young activists in
first-of-its-kind climate change trial in Montana</b><br>
August 14, 2023<br>
</font><font face="Calibri">HELENA, Mont. — A Montana judge on
Monday sided with young environmental activists who said state
agencies were violating their constitutional right to a clean and
healthful environment by permitting fossil fuel development
without considering its effect on the climate.<br>
<br>
The ruling following a first-of-its- kind trial in the U.S. adds
to a small number of legal decisions around the world that have
established a government duty to protect citizens from climate
change.<br>
<br>
In a first, a youth climate lawsuit is being heard in a court in
Montana<br>
District Court Judge Kathy Seeley found the policy the state uses
in evaluating requests for fossil fuel permits — which does not
allow agencies to evaluate the effects of greenhouse gas emissions
— is unconstitutional.<br>
<br>
Judge Seeley wrote in the ruling that "Montana's emissions and
climate change have been proven to be a substantial factor in
causing climate impacts to Montana's environment and harm and
injury" to the youth.</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">However, it's up to the state Legislature to
determine how to bring the policy into compliance. That leaves
slim chances for immediate change in a fossil fuel-friendly state
where Republicans dominate the statehouse.<br>
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<font face="Calibri">Julia Olson, an attorney representing the
youth, released a statement calling the ruling a "huge win for
Montana, for youth, for democracy, and for our climate."...<br>
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<font face="Calibri">"As fires rage in the West, fueled by fossil
fuel pollution, today's ruling in Montana is a game-changer that
marks a turning point in this generation's efforts to save the
planet from the devastating effects of human-caused climate
chaos," said Olson, the executive director of Our Children's
Trust, an Oregon environmental group that has filed similar
lawsuits in every state since 2011.<br>
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Emily Flower, spokesperson for Montana Attorney General Austin
Knudsen, decried the ruling as "absurd" and said the office
planned to appeal. She criticized Seeley for allowing the
plaintiffs to put on what Flower called a "taxpayer-funded
publicity stunt."<br>
<br>
"Montanans can't be blamed for changing the climate," Flower said
in an email. "Their same legal theory has been thrown out of
federal court and courts in more than a dozen states. It should
have been here as well, but they found an ideological judge who
bent over backward to allow the case to move forward and earn
herself a spot in their next documentary."..<br>
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<font face="Calibri">Attorneys for the 16 plaintiffs, ranging in age
from 5 to 22, presented evidence during the two-week trial in June
that increasing carbon dioxide emissions are driving hotter
temperatures, more drought and wildfires and decreased snowpack.<br>
<br>
The plaintiffs said those changes were harming their mental and
physical health, with wildfire smoke choking the air they breathe
and drought drying out rivers that sustain agriculture, fish,
wildlife and recreation. Native Americans testifying for the
plaintiffs said climate change affects their ceremonies and
traditional food sources.<br>
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<font face="Calibri">"I know that climate change is a global issue,
but Montana needs to take responsibility for our part," lead
plaintiff Rikki Held, 22, testified during the trial. "You can't
just blow it off and do nothing about it."<br>
<br>
The state argued that even if Montana completely stopped producing
C02, it would have no effect on a global scale because states and
countries around the world contribute to the amount of C02 in the
atmosphere. A remedy has to offer relief, the state said, or it's
not a remedy at all.<br>
<br>
But Seeley said the state's attorneys failed to give a compelling
reason for why they were not evaluating greenhouse gas impacts.
She rejected the notion that Montana's greenhouse gas emissions
are insignificant and noted that renewable power is "technically
feasible and economically beneficial," citing testimony from the
trial indicating Montana could replace 80% of existing fossil fuel
energy by 2030.<br>
<br>
"Every additional ton of GHG (greenhouse gas) emissions
exacerbates plaintiffs' injuries and risks locking in irreversible
climate injuries," she wrote.<br>
<br>
State officials tried to derail the case and prevent it from going
to trial through numerous motions to dismiss the lawsuit. Seeley
rejected those attempts.<br>
<br>
Since its founding, Our Children's Trust has raised more than $20
million to press its lawsuits in state and federal court. No
previous attempts reached trial.<br>
<br>
Carbon dioxide, which is released when fossil fuels are burned,
traps heat in the atmosphere and is largely responsible for the
warming of the climate. This spring, carbon dioxide levels in the
air reached the highest levels they've been in over 4 million
years, the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration said
earlier this month.<br>
<br>
Greenhouse gas emissions also reached a record high last year,
according to the International Energy Agency.<br>
<br>
July was the hottest month on record globally and likely the
warmest that human civilization has seen, according to scientists.<br>
</font><font face="Calibri"> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.npr.org/2023/08/14/1193780700/montana-climate-change-trial-ruling">https://www.npr.org/2023/08/14/1193780700/montana-climate-change-trial-ruling</a></font><br>
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<font face="Calibri"> <i>[The news archive - looking back at a new
genre of information battles" how MSNBC quickly lost track of
this "missed-information" ]</i><br>
<font size="+2"><i><b>August 16, 2013</b></i></font> <br>
August 16, 2013: The climate documentary "The Politics of Power"
airs for the first, last and only time on MSNBC.<br>
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<p><font face="Calibri"><b>MSNBC's 'Missing' Climate Change
Documentary Finally Found! (Sort Of)</b><br>
Chris Hayes' special quietly made available 'On Demand'...<br>
By BRAD FRIEDMAN on 10/2/2013, 12:04pm PT <br>
In late August, climate hawk and too-occasional BRAD BLOG
contributor D.R. Tucker reported how MSNBC's August 16th Chris
Hayes hosted documentary on climate change and the global
warming denial industry, was nowhere to be found online.
Unlike previous docs from the cable net, this one had not made
available online after its initial airing.<br>
<br>
Despite our best efforts at the time to receive an explanation
from MSNBC or Chris Hayes or the producers of his nightly
prime-time show, All In (which produced and presented the doc
during their normal hour), as to why the special had not been
posted online, several weeks went by and we received no
response...<br>
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<p><font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10284">http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10284</a></font></p>
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